puzzled - Story 108154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Mark slumped in his chair, the application portal still open. He'd been sure. Absolutely sure. He'd been practicing his answers with Ben for weeks. They'd outlined potential scenarios, debated strengths and weaknesses.

He ran a hand through his hair. The room felt constricted.

A notification popped up on his phone: a text from Ben. "Interview tomorrow. Wish me luck!" Mark stared at the message, unable to formulate a response. A strange sensation, like something was off-kilter, washed over him.

Emotion: puzzled

Cluster: Surprise / Confusion

PC1 (Valence): -1.17 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.25

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion puzzled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 puzzled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the puzzled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the puzzled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`que`	0.453
`🤔`	0.421
`🤔`	0.402
`🧐`	0.328
`a`	0.294

Suppressed:

`ecstatic`	-0.265
`gladly`	-0.238
`swiftly`	-0.237
`alleviate`	-0.234
`wholeheartedly`	-0.232